Comments on: [photo] All Systems Go

By: Jay Manifold

Jay Manifold — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:17:28 +0000

Robert, thanks for the tips. I may owe you a plate of barbecue for them soon, having passed a certain milestone recently.

(Awaiting puns on “passed a certain milestone” …)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:16:21 +0000

Thanks, Megan.

By: Megan Mills

Megan Mills — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:48:19 +0000

Those that are concerned with what is happening in Honduras should be reading lagringasblocito on blogspot and the yahoo group honduras_living. These two resources are invaluable for maintaining a feel for events up to the minute.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:53:37 +0000

You might say things are looking up.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:18 +0000

My remark to the gastroenterologist, just I wafted off to cloud-cuckoo land: “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:11:36 +0000

Jonathan: Thank you, and good luck.

Tatanya: There are somethings no one does for fun. But, fear not, your day will come, unless we get socialized medicine first.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:12 +0000

Robert, your description was so appealing, I almost decided to do it just for fun (or to keep you guys company). Almost.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:27 +0000

No worries, Robert.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:08:21 +0000

Please fix the the unterminated link above. I apologize for the error.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:06:50 +0000

I think the recommendation for full scale colonoscopy is once every 10.

At any rate, the real problem is the prep, not the procedure, for which you are anesthetized.

I have lots of helpful tips for the prep.

If they give you the anti-freeze don’t use the “flavor packets”, just get the stuff really cold, hold your nose, and chug it as fast as you can. After you are done with the anti-freeze, you will need fluids to re-hydrate — I like sprite diluted with ice. You will not be allowed to eat anything until after the procedure.

BTW: the worst of all possible worlds is to prep, and then have them tell you that they couldn’t see anything so you will need to come back in a couple of weeks after you prep again.

The doctor will come and talk to you after you wake up, you will be too stoned to remember what he said. Make sure that a trustworthy adult is with you and has a pen and paper with which to take notes. And that he can drive you home. The next day he can tell you what the doctor said.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:07:56 +0000

If you are supposed to get a colonoscopy every five years, and you schedule two colonoscopies for consecutive days, does that mean you are covered for the next ten years?

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:12:22 +0000

So Jonathan, did you turn 50 and schedule your colonoscopy?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:04:25 +0000

Exactly.

By: Ralf Goergens

Ralf Goergens — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:55:31 +0000

It needs to be stressed that these instruments and liquids are only intended to used sparingly to remove obtacles to the free market process and the unimpeded flow of, um, goods. Otherwise, the uninitiated might easily confuse them with the instruments of Stalinist purges.